Monday, with Pink!

 Monday morning — are you ready for some pink?

’cause, boy, do I have some pink for you. . .

 Pink bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa, native to the Pacific Northwest, so very easy-care in my garden)

 Rhododendron ‘Temple Belle’ a week or so ago, when the buds were just beginning to relax themselves open . . .

 their colour still intensely concentrated

 And then yesterday, with the flowers released open into the palest, prettiest pink

 I’ve even “borrowed” some pink, as if I don’t have enough in my own garden — I took this photo, pulling the neighbour’s fabulous cherry tree into my landscape. . .

 Well, wouldn’t you?

 It’s carrying on the loveliest conversation with the broad-leaf maple’s acid-green flowers and the burgundy leaves of the potted Japanese maple.

 More Rhodo ‘Temple Belle” (I first heard this name as Temple Bells, and honestly, I still imagine these sweet washed-out pink flowers as dangling melodiously, ready to ring out a chime to match their colour . . .

 We bought the rough wooden sculpture from an island artisan many years ago.

 She was grateful to find a home for it

 and she and her partner moved away not too long after, but I think of them when I admire the way the roughness of this aged wood sets off the sweet prettiness of this floral show.

I should warn you: I was playing quite a bit with my camera this weekend, in the garden, and there may be other posts of this ilk. I also have a What I Wore post lined up and a few other ideas.  But that’s later. We should be living in the moment, no? And it’s Monday! Monday with Pink — Enjoy!

10 Comments

  1. Mardel
    20 April 2015 / 3:04 pm

    Oh my! Pink in such glorious excess! There can never be too much of your garden posts.

    • materfamilias
      21 April 2015 / 2:20 pm

      Glad you enjoy, Mardel! I'm never quite sure whether I'm overdoing it in my own unbridled enthusiasm to share the garden pretty!

  2. Madame Là-bas
    20 April 2015 / 3:46 pm

    So beautiful! The garden is really about a month ahead. The Wet Coast has had a beautiful spring.

    • materfamilias
      21 April 2015 / 2:21 pm

      It is definitely ahead — my muguet des bois is beginning to bloom, and generally it waits for May to do that.

  3. annie
    20 April 2015 / 7:57 pm

    Spring is here! Favourite time. And, talk about living in the moment, I have discovered a blackbird building her nest in the clematis outside my kitchen door. Chicks – fingers crossed…

    • materfamilias
      21 April 2015 / 2:22 pm

      OH, lucky you! Won't it be wonderful to watch the family grow!

  4. Marie
    20 April 2015 / 9:40 pm

    Thank you for the pink! All we have here is gray, it's a dreary, rainy day. But the forsythias are blooming, and there are buds on the magnolias. We have two, a large old one with pink flowers, and a new small one, planted two summers ago, with soft yellow flowers. I was worried about the small one because last fall a deer scraped off bark all around it. I hadn't known enough to worry about this, and I was sick when I saw it. I hope that the buds are a good sign.

    • materfamilias
      21 April 2015 / 2:23 pm

      Forsythia's a good start — sounds as if spring will soon be pushing your drear out of the way. We had similar damage down to our gingko tree's bark a few years ago, but it seems to have weathered the trauma alright. Hope your magnolia does the same — haven't seen many with those yellow flowers.

  5. Lorrie
    21 April 2015 / 5:28 am

    Wonderful, intense pink! It's such a glorious sight in spring. Great photos.

    • materfamilias
      21 April 2015 / 2:24 pm

      Doesn't it seem to be just what we want in spring, that pink?

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